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Talk Proto-Indo-European to me, darling
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*wīrós (man), *h₁ék̂wōs (horse), *gwéneh₂ (woman)
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Queen of the nightThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Maria Theresa, Habsburg empress, created the modern European state. To ponder her reign is to ask what the Enlightenment was — and is. Be careful with your nostalgias.
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My untranslatable nameThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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When my parents went to register my name after I was born, they carried out an especially elaborate plan. They acquired a chocolate bar
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After midnight
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The modern world races forward with all its technological might, yet remains trapped in a reactive cycle of disasters. Necessary responses follow catastrophes rather than prevent them.
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The Palestinian seafront of the future — Joséphine Baker in HaifaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Long ago, on the coast of Palestine, an elegant Modernist casino was frequented by Muslims, Christians, and Jews. One night in 1943 Joséphine Baker performed.
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Tree illness as metaphorThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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What do we tell ourselves when all the trees simply vanish?
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Double negative
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Our first piece from Issue Eight, out from behind the paywall! « It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction. »
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How to abandon an archiveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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When an authoritarian regime collapses, what happens to the archives of its secret police?
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The underbelly of Krochmalna StreetThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Why aren’t Isaac Bashevis Singer’s gangster novels published in English?
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Sick men of EuropeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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King Leopold & Sultan Abdülhamid — a tale of two monarchs. «I’ve come to see them as twins of a kind: monarchs in bourgeois garb.»
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The business of menThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On pregnancy’s bloody histories & its visceral fictions. A review of Trudy Dehue’s brilliant history of pregnancy research, « Egg, Fetus, Baby ».
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InterjectionsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Non-words for the remembered & unremembered violence of Bulgarian labor camps.